Do-it-yourself comfortable soft armchair

What could be warmer and more comfortable than hand-made things? Especially if this is a chair for beloved family members, and even more so for children.

DIY furniture for children — With your own hands, you can create furniture for your beloved family members, including children.

Almost everyone can assemble beautiful and uncomplicated furniture. You just need to think over the design and select materials. We will tell you how to make a soft chair with your own hands and not spend a lot of effort.

do-it-yourself soft armchair — You can create a soft chair yourself without much effort.

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Advantages and disadvantages of DIY manufacturing
What you need to create a chair
How to make a chair with your own hands
Video: how to make an easy chair with your own hands
Ideas for making an upholstered chair with your own hands

Advantages and disadvantages of DIY manufacturing

Designer expensive furniture is wonderful, but the one that is assembled with your own hands has a soul. Perhaps the finished thing will turn out to be imperfect, but it will be special and, for sure, the most beloved. And if you choose durable materials, then the chair will serve the family for more than one year, and perhaps it will be inherited by the next generations. But this is the lyrics. Home build has other practical advantages:

budget - the master can independently adjust the cost of the product, choose materials according to his wallet;
design - who, no matter how the master himself, will be able to create a thing that will 100% correspond to his ideals;
individual sizes - you will be able to assemble a chair with your own hands for the individual needs of household members.

pluses of home furniture — There are several advantages to making furniture at home.

Are there any drawbacks to manual chair assembly? Yes, there are:

time - you will have to spend more than one day nurturing an idea and creating a thing;
experience - it will not be easy for a novice master to immediately make a suitable chair;
working conditions - expensive equipment is not needed to design and assemble furniture, but not every home has ordinary tools.

disadvantages of home furniture — Among the disadvantages is that you will have to spend a lot of time implementing your idea.

But ... As a last resort, tools can be rented, and individual parts can be ordered from specialists.

What you need to create a chair

In addition to materials and tools, the master needs an idea and an accurate understanding of who and why he makes a chair. If this thing will fit into the interior, then quality materials are needed. If this is a play chair for a child that can be disposed of after a while, a cardboard frame with budget (but hypoallergenic) upholstery and upholstery will do.

Instruments

Most of the tools can be found in any home:

rulers (steel, protractor);
compass;
scissors;
vice (table and hand);
hacksaw;
jigsaw;
soldering iron;
hammer;
a set of keys;
drill;
hammer;
hacksaw;
center punch;
glue, nails, staples.

chair making tools — Be prepared for the fact that you need an impressive set of tools.

The absolute minimum is required to assemble the simplest chair: tools for measuring, cutting and assembling the frame, as well as a sewing machine to make covers / upholstery.

Materials (edit)

For a frame chair, you need wood (timber, boards) or pressed sheet material. The stronger the base, the longer the furniture will last. For wood processing, it is worth purchasing stain and paint (if external wooden parts are assumed).

manufacture of armchair parts — The frame of the chair is made of wood.

The frame can also be welded from metal, but this will only work in a workshop.

For upholstery, you will need foam rubber or polyurethane foam (PPU), as well as a synthetic winterizer. Any furniture fabric that fits into the budget is suitable for upholstery: velor, matting, jacquard, flock.

chair upholstery with foam rubber — It is necessary to select the material for the upholstery and fabric.

What materials can you make an upholstered chair

Even a person who does not have the skills of a carpenter can independently make a comfortable chair for himself or a child. This is the so-called pear chair or bean bag chair. You only need a filler and two types of fabric: for the inner "bag" and a decorative cover.

bean bag or pear — You can make a pear chair or a bag.

Anything can be used as a filler for such a chair. For example, wood shavings or old, unusable things cut into shreds. To make the chair soft, the padding should be wrapped with a layer of foam rubber and padding polyester.

pear chair filler — Many materials are suitable as filler for pears.

Drawings and assembly diagrams

The more curved parts, the more difficult the job will be. Therefore, novice craftsmen should dwell on simple schemes without frills. For example, to assemble a chair from sheets of plywood or boards with a minimum of parts:

side strips will serve as armrests and support;
back - this part can be attached at a right angle or with a slight inclination (about 100 degrees);
front bar;
seat.

An original and simple idea: a pallet armchair. You will need one pallet, a bar for legs, armrests and side ties.

Following the drawings, in a home workshop, you can also make a round chair. But their production will require more experience in working with plastic materials.

The round armchair is made using a slightly different technology.

How to make a chair with your own hands

Before starting work, you need to decide on the size of the finished product, think over the slope of the slats. For the manufacture of patterns, you will need cardboard: the template is useful for cutting out frame parts, preparing foam filling and drawing up a cover pattern. How to make a child's and adult's chair out of foam rubber with your own hands?

drawing chair template — On the basis of the drawings, a template for the details of the chair is made.

Important: the height of a standard chair is 1 m (sometimes 120 cm). Diameter - 30 cm (bottom bottom), 15 cm (top bottom)

The standard height of a child seat is no more than 60 cm, diameters are 25 and 11 cm.

child seat parameters — The child seat has its own parameters.

Preparation of all parts

Based on calculations and drawings, it is necessary to draw up templates for parts on cardboard. Wooden elements are cut with a jigsaw.
Even the wooden parts hidden under the filler and upholstery should be sanded and stained to make the furniture last longer.

cutting out parts of the chair — Wooden parts are cut with a jigsaw.

Particular attention should be paid to the end parts: they are impregnated with linseed oil. If bends are provided, they can be obtained by splitting the fibers with a hammer.

Foam and fabric parts must be cut according to the template.

Assembling the frame

The main parts of the frame are connected to each other (starting from the side slats and backrest), and then additionally fastened with a metal rim or furniture ties. Screws are used to fix the rims.

chair frame fabrication — In the manufacture of the frame, all parts are connected to each other.

The finished base must be covered. Any hard-wearing fabric will work for the back plank. (secure with wide-headed wallpaper nails).

fabric upholstery — The upholstery must be secured to the base.

The interior of the chair (seat, backs, armrests) is laid out with foam rubber. It can be fixed with furniture glue, but for greater reliability, it is worth riveting along the contour with nails or ties. The upholstery is fastened along the edge, along the transverse parts.

the inside of the chair — The inner part is lined with foam rubber.

Important! For maximum reliability, the attachment points are processed with wood glue.

The finished armchair is upholstered with upholstery fabric.

Making a cover

Before sewing the cover, you need to measure the width and height of all structural elements: seats, armrests, curbs, backrests. According to ready-made measurements, on the basis of the remaining templates, prepare the details: transfer the patterns to graph paper, attach to the fabric with safety pins and circle. Add allowances of 15-20 cm.

sewing a cover for a chair — Before sewing the cover, you need to measure all the design parameters.

For the armrests, you will need two patterns: external and internal. The fragments are joined on the fabric folded in half. The seam lines of the longitudinal thread should be marked with chalk.

armrest pattern — For the armrests, you will have to make two separate patterns.

Important: the intended seam location can be closed with frills from the bottom edge of the fabric (frill length 1.3 cm).

The blanks for the armrest and the outer part of the back must be folded with the edges outward, draw the seams. The marked lines connect the inner and outer parts.

Internal patterns are made with a margin of 20 cm on each side.

chair cover making — Blanks are made with a small margin.

Fix the parts for the backrest and seat inner part with pins to the furniture to determine the seam locations.

fastening the cover parts — The details of the cover are held together with pins.

Finished parts are sewn together with a margin, so that later you can “adjust” the size of the cover with darts and assemblies.

Decorating

The best thing to decorate a chair is cute pillows in different sizes. Sewing them is simple and quick. These can be miniature dummies of different shapes, sewn from the same fabric as the cover / upholstery or other fabric. For example, bright pillows are perfect for a plain light armchair.

decor armchairs pillows — The best decoration for an armchair is various pillows.

You can decorate the cover with sewn-on ruffles and frills. Usually they are sewn to the bottom of the cover, as well as along the edge of the furniture itself.